Posted on August 15th, 2008 by thetacom
We’re getting ready to leave Louisiana. Yay! If anyone is looking to buy a 2 bedroom, 1 bath house near Hammond, Louisiana. Shoot me an email with your contact information for more details.
justin at thetacom dot info
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by thetacom
Here’s a very interesting slideshow I just found. It proposes using XMPP as a quick and lightweight alternative to bulky feeds and HTML.
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by thetacom
This new passenger is a joy to have around. He is very friendly and truly helpful. This passenger I’m referring to is Passenger a.k.a. mod_rails for Apache web servers. Passenger is produced by Phusion, a computer science company that specializes in IT products and services.
From their site:
“Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails) is a open source product [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by thetacom
Farewell all!
Well, I finally got my orders. I thought it was never going to happen. Being a recruiter has been a unique experience to say the least. Though one I’m definitely not going to miss. In many ways I found my time out here more traumatizing than the year I spent in Iraq. Although my [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by thetacom
This is a plugin that is design to assist in the usage of the dojo toolkit with your rails application. It is still very much in the works, so any recommendation are definitely welcome. It is designed to be used with Rails 2+ and Dojo 1.1. The full dojo 1.1 library [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by thetacom
Coming Soon!
I am working on a plugin that will assist in integrating the Dojo Toolkit libraries into your rails applications. I have made good progress so far. It has a variety of helpers to make short work to inlude the dojo core library and specify the requires, create dijits, use dojo functions and experiment with dojox. Currently [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by thetacom
These are my links for March 23rd through March 29th:
The Dojo Toolkit - now with more bling - A spoof on the scriptaculous site. Shows a variety of dojotoolkits features. And is still functional at the same time.
HowtoUseRailsWithSubversion in Ruby on Rails -
Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers - [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by thetacom
These are some of the items that I use frequently throughout the development process. Hopefully you will find them useful also.
Serverside Frameworks
Ruby on Rails: An open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.
Homepage - Download - API - Community
CakePHP: Enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.
Homepage - [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by thetacom
These are my links for March 22nd through March 23rd:
ProtoFlow first preview release? :: Deensoft -
19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don?t Know - Some little known tricks for those of you using Rails.
:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: For attaching files, use Paperclip - A rails plugin for managing file [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by thetacom
As of Rails 2.0 the in_place_editor methods have been moved into a plugin. You can download this plugin here. For some items I needed to have a dropdown selection instead of a text field. To add this functionality, I added two methods to the plugin.
Here is the full contents of ‘in_place_macros_helper.rb’ http://pastie.caboo.se/169443
Replace the contents of [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by thetacom
These are my links for February 20th through March 21st:
Rails Revision 9066: /plugins - Upon release of rails 2.0, this a list of items that have been moved out of rails core and into plugins.
GreyBox - Examples - The examples page for the GreyBox JS
Army Electronic Forms by Range - Army electronic forms by range
AT&T [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by thetacom
Well, yet again I’ve decided to change my blog theme. I try to keep things consistent, but the last one just wasn’t cutting it. I think this flows much better. The three column layout seems to be a better use of the space. Also this one is just more visually appealing. Which brings a good [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by thetacom
If any of you out there are looking for an IDE to use for RoR development then you need to try Aptana IDE. Once you have downloaded and installed the IDE, install the RadRails plugin. Since I have began using it, it has been a great help. It [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by thetacom
I was recently contacted by a previous client about modifying his site. He wanted a list of changes and additional features added. When I began preparing to make the changes, I was thrown into a mildly nightmarish flashback. His site was one of the first that I had ever worked [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by thetacom
As of right now, I’m suppose to be done with my tour in recruiting sometime in July. That’s one that I’ll believe it when I see it. Just to be on the safe side, I’m expecting to be out here for another 4 to 6 months (past July that is). The past three years has [...]
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